Mitt Romney delayed conceding the 2012 election to President Barack Obama, even with the writing on the wall. Once he admitted defeat, however, his campaign went into shutdown mode, quickly dismantling and even canceling the credit cards of campaign aides late on election night. 
 NBC's Garrett Haake described the abrupt transition of the Romney campaign after the GOP nominee gave his brief concession speec ...

The possibility of Mr Romney being offered a government job or task-force during a second Obama term was raised by the president in his victory speech on Tuesday night. "I also look forward to sitting down with Governor Romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward," Mr Obama said. Grant Bennett, who served alongside Mr Romney as a Mormon bishop in Massachusetts, said that his ...

"The losing candidate has an important duty tonight," said Republican strategist Steve Schmidt as polling closed. "That's to concede the election in a graceful manner." 
 Around 1am, Mitt Romney duly obliged – but some of his allies did not get the memo. To put it mildly. "[Obama] lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!" notedDonald Trump, in a tweet ...

The election that was supposed to be too close to call turned out not to be so close after all. In my opinion, Obama won for two reasons: (1) Obama is non-threatening and inclusive, whereas Romney exuded a “us vs. them” impression that many found threatening, and (2) the election was not close enough for the electronic voting machines to steal. As readers know, I don’t think that either candidate is a good ...

Yesterday, Barack Obama won the presidential election. But, the people of six states voted to take their freedom without federal “permission.” In ten states – Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Massachusetts and Alabama – voters had a chance to resist DC and approve ballot initiatives which would nullify unconstitutional federal acts. Six of them passed. And here’s a ...

In the wake of the 2012 Presidential election, the expected gloating over Obama’s victory and sulking over Romney’s defeat by their respective supporters is taking its typical turn toward the absurd, at least for those who are aware of the true lack of choice that was presented in this election. As every other failed presidential campaign in history has done, the Romney camp will soon come to grips with the ...

Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ” 
 So who in the government did tell “anybody” not to help those in need? Someone decided not to send in military assets to help those Agency operators. Woul ...

At breakfast-time Katie McKernan attempted to watch Good Morning America, ABC television's popular news and light entertainment show, which is watched by a nationwide audience of roughly five million. It was not a happy experience. At 8.40am, during a commercial break, a threatening voice asked: "What will Barack Obama's second term look like?" The answer? Spiralling national debt, huge cuts to Medicare, th ...

The terms insurgency and counterinsurgency can quickly become confusing in a politically motivated context. However, generally speaking, an insurgency seeks to overthrow an established institution or political order, while a counterinsurgency seeks to maintain that order. In the United States, and around much of the world where the nation-state still prevails, the established order is one of national sovere ...

This has been brewing since around May. At least that’s when we first started noticing it here at Dangerous Minds and we certainly weren’t the only ones. Spring of 2012 was when bloggers, non-profits, indie bands, George Takei, community theaters, photographers, caterers, artists, mega-churches, high schools, tee-shirt vendors, campus coffee shops, art galleries, museums, charities, food trucks, and a near ...